Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World



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ISBN: 9780143116806
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Page: 576
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Its called, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. Written in the style that feels very similar to Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, Lord of Finance traces the little stories that demonstrated the personalities of the four most important central bankers prior to 1929. They had exerted huge influence on the It was interesting to get a peek at a world still obsessed with the almost divine quality of gold as a storekeeper of value and with poor understanding of monetary economics. Thank you for inviting me tonight, and for enabling an ongoing conversation in the very challenging times we live in. Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world. The author of The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed, was at the Academy as a David Rubenstein Distinguished Visitor on October 1. I also look forward to receiving the book I have just bought from here , the updated wealth of nations. I've come to believe that the best book about the global recession of 2008-present is Liaqart Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, a history of central banking in the interwar period. Today it is the turn of the Lords of Finance - the bankers who nearly broke the world. Jstrok August 8, 2011 at 9:24 pm.